Anti-rattler for thill-couplings



(No Model.) I v H. BEARD.

, ANTI RA'I TLER FOR THILL COUPLINGS.

No. 247,875. Patented 001;. 4,1881.

MIMI I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE BEARD,.OF WILTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

ANTl-RATTLER FOR THlLL-COUPLINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,875, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed August 27, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE BEARD, of Wilton, of the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Anti-Battling Devices for Thill-Uouplings; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following speci-,

fication and represented in the drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a thill-coupling with my improved anti-rattling spring or device adapted thereto. Fig. 4 is a view of the spring as it appears on being formed or struck from a metallic plate and previous to it being bent in manner as shown in Fig. 5, which is an edge view of the spring as it appears when ready for application to a coup ling.

The object of my invention is to make a spring that cannot be set or broken by rais ing and turning backward the thill, and that accoinpan 'i ng can be inserted-without uncoupling the thill or removing any part of the vehicle.

In carrying out my invention I construct the spring or anti-rattling device with an opeir ing or passage extending from front to back through the portion of it that projects above thejoint of the coupling, such opening or passage being of a size that will admit of the thill being turned upward and backward against the clip without contact with or doing to the spring.

In the drawings, A denotes the thill,-and B the clip, with which it is coupled in the usual manner, as represented. The anti-rattling spring (shown at (J) is formed of a strip or piece of plate metal, and is shaped essentially as exhibited in Fig. 4, it being an ellipse,havingan elliptic opening, 0, through it, and also having projections 11 1) extending from it at the rnds of its longer axis. On the plate being bent as shown in Fig. 5, and compressed and applied to the coupling in manner as represented in Fig. 3, such plate becomes by its inherent elasticity a spring to prevent rattling of the coupling. On the thill being turned upward it cannot be torced in contact with the spring to do injury thereto, as the thill will be injury received within the opening and not touch the spring.

What I claim as my invention is-- The described improved anti-rattling device or spring, as made with the opening or passage 0 extending through it from front to back, in the'part of it which, when it is applied to a thill-coupling, is to project above the joint tin-reef, all being substantially as set forth. HORACE BEARD. Witnesses:

ABRAM A. RAMSEY, ALBERT BEARD. 

